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Cambridge University Liberal Association
Cambridge University Liberal Association (CULA) is the student branch of the Liberal Democrats for students at the University of Cambridge.
Founded as Cambridge University Liberal Club (CULC) in 1886, it is the University's longest-established student political society, having remained in continuous existence from the time of its inception, other than during the First World War. It has been a long-term proponent of liberalism, an early supporter of European membership and a defender of civil rights and individual liberty, including LGBTQ+ rights. It also campaigns on green issues and the fight against human-induced climate change.
It is the successor to the Cambridge Student Liberal Democrats, which in turn was formed from the merger of Cambridge University Liberal Club and Cambridge University Social Democrats (founded in 1981) upon the creation of the Lib Dems in 1988.
In recent decades, it has campaigned against the Iraq War, removals of banking regulation and supervision, and Brexit.
The society has long been active in Cambridge politics, with student members playing a role in electing David Howarth on a 15% swing in the 2005 election, when the student turnout was unusually and noticeably higher than that in the rest of the city, and then subsequently Julian Huppert as his successor in 2010.
The older of its founder societies, the Cambridge University Liberal Club, originally existed side by side with a discussion forum for radical Cambridge politics in the late 1880s, called 'The Rainbow Circle.' Alumni of this group relocated to London after their graduation, and helped found the Bloomsbury-based radical group of that same name in 1894.
Between 1886 and 1897, the club's founder Treasurer was Oscar Browning, a Fellow of King's and three-times Liberal candidate who was also Treasurer of the Cambridge Union Society. The society had varying fortunes as the Liberal Party waned in the mid-twentieth century.
Notable past speakers included the long-term Liberal supporter Oscar Wilde, as well as those not normally associated with the Liberal Party, such as Jerome K. Jerome (1912), W. H. Auden (1938), former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean, and Irish Prime Minister Seán Lemass (1961). A complete list of the society's past events from 1886 to the present is available here.
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Cambridge University Liberal Association
Cambridge University Liberal Association (CULA) is the student branch of the Liberal Democrats for students at the University of Cambridge.
Founded as Cambridge University Liberal Club (CULC) in 1886, it is the University's longest-established student political society, having remained in continuous existence from the time of its inception, other than during the First World War. It has been a long-term proponent of liberalism, an early supporter of European membership and a defender of civil rights and individual liberty, including LGBTQ+ rights. It also campaigns on green issues and the fight against human-induced climate change.
It is the successor to the Cambridge Student Liberal Democrats, which in turn was formed from the merger of Cambridge University Liberal Club and Cambridge University Social Democrats (founded in 1981) upon the creation of the Lib Dems in 1988.
In recent decades, it has campaigned against the Iraq War, removals of banking regulation and supervision, and Brexit.
The society has long been active in Cambridge politics, with student members playing a role in electing David Howarth on a 15% swing in the 2005 election, when the student turnout was unusually and noticeably higher than that in the rest of the city, and then subsequently Julian Huppert as his successor in 2010.
The older of its founder societies, the Cambridge University Liberal Club, originally existed side by side with a discussion forum for radical Cambridge politics in the late 1880s, called 'The Rainbow Circle.' Alumni of this group relocated to London after their graduation, and helped found the Bloomsbury-based radical group of that same name in 1894.
Between 1886 and 1897, the club's founder Treasurer was Oscar Browning, a Fellow of King's and three-times Liberal candidate who was also Treasurer of the Cambridge Union Society. The society had varying fortunes as the Liberal Party waned in the mid-twentieth century.
Notable past speakers included the long-term Liberal supporter Oscar Wilde, as well as those not normally associated with the Liberal Party, such as Jerome K. Jerome (1912), W. H. Auden (1938), former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean, and Irish Prime Minister Seán Lemass (1961). A complete list of the society's past events from 1886 to the present is available here.